[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [...] > > * good support for non-western lyrics, > > > > * usable PostScript output > > > > * better support for TeX's text formatting features. > > > > * A cleaner system for reading and processing fonts. > > Please don't answer the following questions if you feel they're > inappropriate. I'm just being curious... > > Since a few months ago, I was under the impression that the Lilypond TeX > backend would be gradually moved to maintenance mode, in favor of the > PostScript backend. Is that correct?
Yup. > If not, what is the motivation for continuing to invest time into both > TeX and PostScript backends? Practically: TeX has more formatting capabilities. Personally, I want to minimize the amount of time I sink into TeX, but Werner thinks it is a valuable feature, and he has been (hopefully: will be) willing to keep that back-end up to date. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel